I recently installed 1.6.2 in Windows XP and Mac OSX.4, and have been
receiving the same error when inserting EPS format graphics:
"Error converting to loadable format"
As far as I can tell this only applies to EPS, and PNG/JPG work fine.
On both systems, for 1.5.6, the EPS preview worked well.
There is no problem viewing the document in DVI or PDF, and the output
looks great.
I looked into this somewhat, and think it's likely an issue with the
versions of ghostscript and imagemagick included in the
alt-installer--or their lack thereof. Neither program was installed
with the alt-installer, and simply copying the two directories from an
older install did not fix the problem. I do have both programs
installed elsewhere on my system, though this wasn't a problem with the
1.5.6. installer.
This happens with the small installer. I tried running the complete
installer, even uninstalling my existing MikTeX 2.7 installation. But
that installer fails after installing MikTeX for some reason.
Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a ready workaround? This is
really mostly an inconvenience, but having the figures shown in the lyx
document makes writing about them much easier.
Anthony Kendall
